Fasting In Ayurveda
Secret of a happy and healthy life is to live a life free from ama (toxins). Ayurveda explained many procedures to be free from ama. langhana is one among six therapeutic procedures of Ayurveda to get rid of disease. Fasting is one among langhana. if a patient is suffering from excessive accumulation of abnormal pitta, kapha, rakta and mala then he should go for langhana. As these are liquid tissues so fasting dries these abnormal tissues and brings health. Fasting type of langhana is indicated in Alpa Bala (less strength) person.
Fasting can be done as follows
- Fast without food
- Fast with juices like ushna Jala, fruit juices, butter milk etc.
- Fast with liquid diet
- Fast with light diet
Fasting with liquid diet
- 7am- a glass of warm water / butter milk / fruit juices
- 9am- rawa ganji
- 11am- coconut water/ papaya fruit /grilled fruit chat
- 2pm- cooked brown rice with yellow moong dal, with plenty of water added to it (1:14) add 2tsp of pure cow ghee
- 5pm- green tea/ smoothies
- Dinner- before 3hrs going to bed (khichari) – cooked brown rice with yellow moong dal, with plenty of water added to it (1:14) add 2tsp of pure cow ghee.
Fasting with light food
- 7am- 1 lemon juice, a glass of warm water and 1tsp pure honey
- 9am- rawa idly with plenty of pure cow ghee
- 11am- coconut water/ papaya fruit /grilled fruit chat
- 2pm- cooked brown rice with yellow moong dal (khichari) add 2 tsp of pure cow ghee
- 5pm- green tea/ smoothies
- Dinner- before 3hrs going to bed (khichari)
- Khichari: 1/3 cup of moong dal and 2/3 cup of basmati rice (or other grain) simmered in 3-4 cups of water. Add 1/4 teaspoon of organic turmeric, ginger, cumin and coriander. Add seasonal vegetables – spinach, peas, or seaweeds, Shitake mushrooms for an all-round healing, healthy, Agni (fire) enkindling meal.
While fasting it can be useful to sip hot drinks. Try spicy teas of black pepper, cinnamon and cardamom to burn ama, clear toxins and relax your contracting stomach.
Indication
- Excess abnormal Pitta-Kapha prakopa
- Excess abnormal Rakta
- Excess abnormal Mala and Ama
- Abnormal Vata with Pitta and Kapha
- Person with good strength and body
Benefits
- Relieves from drowsiness
- Clears all Srotases (Body Channels)
- Creates good taste in mouth
- Increase good hunger, thirst and belch
- Clears mind and senses
- Clears flatus, urine and feces
- Clears heart, throat and erection
